Stupid Newbie Disaster

Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu) ubuntu at kaiser-linux.li
Sat Nov 19 10:07:44 UTC 2005


Hello John

John W Redelfs wrote:
>     So, now back to your problem. What happens if you start (boot) your PC.
>     Does it try to start X and tell you after that it can't do it and your
>     are back in the command line? 
> 
> 
> Yeah, that is what is happening.
> 
>     If so, You just have the wrong nVidia driver for your kernel. I had this
>     several times in the past, because I did some stupied things :-) 
> 
> 
> So if I rm the nVidia stuff, I'll be able to boot back into X-windows? 
> Where do I find the nVidia stuff to remove it?  Maybe I can find it with 
> grep or find or something.  Does the shell default with that stuff in 
> the path?  I'll give it a try and see what happens.  I hope I don't dig 
> myself in deeper. --JWR

Please, tell me what you did to install the nVidia driver! And send a 
copy of the xorg.conf file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf).

Regards, Thomas




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